Belt-fastener.



l. MILLAR.

BELT FASTEN ER. APPLICATION FILED mama. ma.

Patented Dec. 18, 1917.

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a I the inner or pulley face of the belt.

arms is sufficient to have each 'palr clench the belt portions intervening between saidi,

6 arms and overlapped by the long arms. A likes .l ench'ng k on the a y 9f; the lo ng ar n proh sb set fro'rn'the short arm prongs lengthwise the belt, produces a lacingeifect' as clearly shown in Figs. and 6, and af- 10 fords a fastening means crosswise the belt so that all the prongs have a clenching posi-' tion' perpendicular to the punr the belt endswith respect to the plate or fastener; The= pl 0ngsw7 areeonvexed at 7*, and cjon' caved at 7", for facilitating lateral bending thereof] The fastener shown in Fig. 7, is for narrow belts, and comprises two pair of side pronged arms 10, projecting from the plate 0 11,'and each pair of arms having a pair of'prongs 12 'ther'ebetween and prO'Jecting from the edges of the plate. Fig. 8 shows a similar fastener with a pair of long arms 13 projecting-centrally from each edge oftheplate l4, and two pair of short arms 15" at-eae'h side ofithe; central arms. The prongs of boththese 'f0IIIlS like the prongs first described-, are b'endable laterally ina fcle-nchin'gfioperation'. It will' be' seen that there is 80 little or no partof the fasteners allowed" to appear-upon the 'a' n-ner facebr' pulley side of'a beltyand what slich' fae'e orside is therefore free 'of fastener contact with the pulleys. It will also be 'observed that the-fastener plates afford .abearing surface forthe belt ends askthey pass over a pulley, so that there is no liability of the belt ends becoming pressed between-the plate arms either in a clench 40 inga operation. or in passing over. a .pulley.

Thd 1 curvature "of the prongs ex dit z g h cur ling 'thereefrinia. clendhingc. dperation.

By reason o-f:the"-spaced armseof different lengthyiand "of-the spaced curvedrprongg;

co ns-mums i1 tent maly berobtainefl Tilt lateral bending of the prongsoj the shprt belt;

pronged a-rms,'E

there is an unusual amount of unpunctured belt material between each set of arms, as well as betweeii'tie arms of each set, and

.alsoqbetween each set of prongs and between the pron s of each set, whereby a .greater body of solid belt material-than usualis I do not wish to be understood as confinprovided at the meeting ends of the ing my invention teany' pavtietlar number:

ofarms or prdrigsy-niimber ofplates; er'ito the-length i-of' the arms or prongs, nor .do I wish to'be u-nde-rstood as limiting my. in

ventiron to a-ia'stenerfplate' having only'p but reserve theiright to 'lnalie ands use:such variations andi mod ification's ofat-he fasteners herein described tindshown; as may come withinithe' scopeiof the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention What I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-.

ters Patent is or 5 only; projecting pnongs5 A one-piece fastening device for the outer I face of themeeti'ngwends of pulley belts,

comprising body iplate, :longarms proj e'ct ing from oppositeq sideedg-esaioft the plate.-

'70 opposite-each other,- a plurality-of opposite short armsd nterveningthe long arms with a space.- thereb'etiween and "terminating in .s

shoulderacentralaozfi lihe -tl'eng;tha-ofthe long arms, clenching; prongs projecting; frornian d the-short arm shoulders, each of said. prongs bein g confvexed and 'eoncaved and adapted to be spread-.yapart crosswise the arms: for spanning said spaces in abelt-clenching op eration. w 1 v r In witness whereofI hereunto set my hand insthe presence of two witnesses;

at right angles ;t..Q ithe; outer end of the long .:arms, and clenching-prongs projectingfro'm Joan-l minated 

